Traveling music-sheet and attachment.



I 8. DE BELLA, 1n. TRAVELING MUSIC SHEET AND ATTACHMENT.

- APPLICATION FILED SEPT-15.191

1 5294,6131, Patented Feb.18,1919.

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.TBeY I 1K I E AND ATTACHMENT- -Talld0h0m it-mayconcern Be it known thatI, S LVATORE DE BELLA,

J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Traveling Music-Sheets andAttachments, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to traveling music sheets, and the main object ofthe same is the provision of an end piece for traveling music sheets,which is simple in construction and inexpensive to manufacture, and

which can be readily applied to the music sheets to replace the old ordamaged ends so that the music sheet, instead of being thrown away, asis customary, may be renewed for service as before.

With this object and others in view, the invention consists in thedetails of construction and in the arrangement and combination of partshereinafter described and. shown in the accompanying drawings, forming amaterial. part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a view infront elevation of a conventional roller and travehng music sheet,showing in particular my attachment applied to the end of the musicsheet.

F ig. 2 is a side elevation showing my attachment applied to the end ofthe traveling music sheet.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of my attachment.

Fig. 4: is a plan view of another form of my attachment.

Ends of the traveling music sheets used in pianolas, player-pianos andlike instru ments, employing a tracker board, are frequently torn offentirely or damaged to such an extent that the music sheets are renderedworthless. This is particularly true of the music sheets made of thepoorer qualities of paper. It is obvious, therefore, that there is aneed for end pieces adapted readily to be attached to the music sheetsso as to replace the old ends, thereby bringing the sheets intocondition to be used again, instead of throwing themaway as useless.

With more particular reference to the accompanying drawings, the numeral10 indicates a conventional music sheet adapted to wind and unwind uponthe usual roller as 11.

Fig. 3- shows the preferred form of my" like.

Specification G atemal n. Pge t Fe 18, 1919, Ap plication file l september Serial No.191,647.

-thin,-yet strong pliable paper, but'which,

obviously, may be made of other suitable materials such as leather,cloth and the From a single piece of material are cut the identical bodyplates 12, having converging sides 13 and 14 terminating in the integralneck 15, which is bent upon itself transversely intermediate its lengthto provide a continuous loop or eye 16 for the reception of a clip orfastening device 17.

The confrontingfaces of the body plates 12 including the integral neck15, thus formed, are glued or otherwise rigidly Secured together, exceptthe portions adjacent the horizontal edges 20, which portions, be ingleft unattached, will be hereinafter referred to as the tab elements 21.

The confronting faces of these tab elements 21 are coated with anysuitable adhesive substance of the character used on postage stamps,letter flaps and the like, and which, upon being moistened, will enablethe elements 21 to be rigidly connected to the end of the music sheet,one element upon each side thereof, as best illustrated in Fig. 2. As ameans of strengthening the neck 15 as well as the adjacent portions ofthe body plates 12, against tearing under twists or strains, I prefer toapply thereto a reinforcing plate as 22.

In order to apply this form of end attachment to the end of the musicsheet, it will be obvious that the end of the latter including the usualfastening clip carried thereby, must first be removed by cutting it offwith a pair of shears or other suitable instrument. The attachmentshould be applied with the opposite edges '18 and 19 in exactparallelism with the corresponding edges of the music sheet, in suchmanner that the neck 15 falls intermediate the width eye 26 for thereception of the clip 17, as illustrated in Fig. 4, the construction inall other respects being precisely the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is As an article ofmanufacture, an end attachment for traveling music sheets comprising abody portion of thin material, the upper portion of said body being ofthe same Width as the normal untapered width of the music sheet andformed with parallel sides corresponding with the parallel sides of themusic sheet, and the lower portion thereof being formed with convergingsides terminating in a neck element, means combined with the neckelement for connecting the same with a roller, a pair of confronting tabelements projecting from the upper body portion and corresponding inwidth thereto, said tab elements being adapted to cooperate for theengagement therebetween of an edge of the music sheet at its normalwidth, and substance coated upon the confronting faces of said tabelements adapted to cause the same to rigidly adhere to the edge engagedtherebetween, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

SALVATORE DE BELLA, JR.

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